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The new Mr Average

They don’t drink. They ‘eat clean’. They work out twice a day. A generation of young men is becoming more body-conscious than women

Justin Quirk

December 19 2015, 11:48am, The Times

Builder Nick Dacks, 26

This article was amended on December 31, 2015.

Every morning at 6am, 26-year-old Nick Dacks wakes up in the home he shares with his father in Milton Keynes and begins the routine that has become an essential part of his life. After 100g oats, he has three whole eggs and three more egg whites mixed with protein powder, along with cod-liver-oil tablets and perhaps some branched-chain amino acids. Following three hours working as a scaffolder, he’ll break for his next meal: two large chicken breasts, 200g white rice and some steamed or raw broccoli, followed by the same meal at 1pm. After getting home from work at 4pm, he’ll eat two cans of tuna fish and some sweet potatoes, “and sometimes I’ll add a protein…